Naval Air Service

Famous quotes containing the words naval, air and/or service:

    “It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
    All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)